Focus Week 1: Barnes Wetland

For focus week, I paid a visit Barnes Wetland. Barnes Wetland is amazingly rich in wildlife and a tranquil city. This is amazing considering that it is in the middle of one of the world's busiest cities and directly under the Heathrow flight path. Although it is an arguably artificially created habitat, it's development from Victorian resevoirs to a crucial wildlife habitat is arguably an example of natural development in an urban context.

Birds come from all over the world to the Barnes Wetland. The Barnes Wetland is a bird reserve, primarily intended for water fowl. Interestingly, even before the formal creation of the reserve, the redundant resevoirs were attracting a significant wildfowl population.